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Some people are just naturally driven and organized. Good for them! The rest of us may need a little extra help when it comes to figuring out how to manage our time and reach our goals.

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And maybe you’ve been curious about the idea of bullet journaling as a solution but feel overwhelmed by the idea of creating your own system.

Welp, we've got you covered! The Simple Elephant Planner is the perfect choice to get you started, providing some structure for planning your day and managing tasks.

You may have heard about the Simple Elephant before, because it's one of the best planners for people new to the productivity planner scene — in fact, it's BuzzFeed Reviews' winner for the best affordable planner on the market!

First off, this thing is incredibly simple in both structure and function. By reducing clutter on its pages, the planner aims to reduce clutter in your mind as well.

It’s undated, which means you can jump in at any point in the year and skip weeks for vacation without losing pages. (But if you’re looking for something with more space for daily pages, we recommend the Lemome planner.) Customizing it and filling in the dates as you go can also help you feel more connected to the process while minimizing any worry about when to use it.

The Simple Elephant planner has an equally minimal philosophy: top of page, top of mind. The top of the first page of the weekly spread has a large box titled “Goals For This Week"; the second page of the weekly spread includes two boxes marked “Successes” and “What I Can Do Better,” which you can use at the end of your week to reflect on your wins, what you've learned, and areas for improvement.

You'll have to do a little work before getting into this planner, but even this is pared down compared to the prep work required of other journals.

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In the front, you fill out a page with a list of what you’re grateful for and some affirmations. This way, if you’re feeling unfocused when you look at your weekly spread, you can flip right to this section to inspire yourself. On the opposite page is a list of five goals for the year. Again, this makes it easy when you’re planning your week to remember just what it is you’re working toward. The planner has three bookmarking ribbons so that you can pick which pages you would like to be able to easily turn to, eliminating the time you might spend frustratedly searching for a specific page.

The next two pages might seem hokey: a vision board and a mind map. This space is unlined, so you can use pens, markers, or colored pencils to depict the things you want and the way you approach them.

The creators of the Simple Elephant claim that this engages “both sides of the mind” for maximum motivation, and reviewers seem to agree!

"Love this planner. I love the free-form. You can skip weeks you know you're out of town or whatever and save those pages for another time. I think my favorite part of this planner is the first two pages. Everything to do with this planner is how YOU make it. For me, it also helped (kind of made) me reflect on things I really do want and goals I really do want to achieve. Words of affirmation was difficult for me to fill out so I looked them up online and wrote the ones that spoke to me most. How I want to/should be seeing myself." —Amazon Customer

"This freaking planner... it's EVERYTHING I needed. I'll let you guys in on how I organized mine. Color-coded all five goals at the beginning, and then when I was doing something daily, weekly, monthly that served those goals, I wrote that in the corresponding color. So you can glance at a week and say, 'Yes, I'm hitting Goals 1, 2, and 3 but not 4 and 5' or whatever, but that system helps me feel tethered in my daily activities to my bigger goals. I also love the vision board and space for mind mapping. I have severe adult ADHD and am a trauma victim, so I need therapeutic tools (plus meds) to help organize my thoughts and this planner has thought of everything. Space for journaling at the back — like 60 pages. On each weekly page spread, there's a place for weekly goals (again color-coded to yearly goals), successes, and what I can work on. This is the planner!!!!" —Kelly Wolfe

"I am very picky about planners and I have to say this is by far one of the best I've purchased. The layout is very user-friendly and helps with organization. I also love how customizable it is and the color and quality of the material is stunning. I will definitely order another one when I'm done with this one." —Crystal C

Basically, the simplicity of this planner helps cut through the overwhelming feeling of working out how to achieve what you want.

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While that means you won’t have space to plan your day on an hourly basis (something you could supplement with, say, Google Calendar), for this price, you can’t beat it!